User talk:SimonEast

Welcome
Hello Simon, welcome to Wikipedia. Thanks for all your contributions so far. Judging by your user page... you really should get that skin condition looked at!

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Welcome to the 'pedia! Are you the same guy that used to edit at DMOZ? Ambivalenthysteria 08:46, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's me. How'd you notice me on here?  I'm pretty new, but love the concept of this thing.  I just hope I don't get too addicted like I did with DMOZ; eventually left that because it took up too much time. Did you have a different username on DMOZ? -- SimonEast 09:35, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * I'm from Vic too, so I had some of the articles you edited on my watchlist, and recognised the username. I have the same name on DMOZ, but I've hardly edited in about six months. Ambivalenthysteria 11:08, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Nice work with the photos! There's a lot of Melbourne articles in need of them. I need to get my digital camera back - I'd taken nice ones of Flinders Street Station and a couple of other places, and then my brother borrowed and wiped it, and still hasn't given it back. Ambivalenthysteria 10:02, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * Thanks! Check my contributions to see what I've added (airport, Ashburton station, Swinburne Uni).  Got more to come too.  I've uploaded them all as "public domain" - I don't mind if they get copied.  Is this the best copyright notice to use? &mdash; SimonEast 10:05, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)


 * That's the one. :) Ambivalenthysteria 10:06, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Melbourne articles
Hey there, I don't know if you've checked up on the WikiProject Melbourne recently, but a few of us have decided to adopt an article or two. The idea is to pick a lacking article and "be in charge" of it - do the research, writing, maybe even picture-taking. We're trying to build up the number of qualiy articles, instead of thinly-spread stubs. Don't feel you have to do anything :), but if you want, pick an article and add yourself to the list. TPK 20:51, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC) Talk

Universal Serial Bus
The reverts were accidental, I didn't even notice it until you mentioned it. I have reverted myself. The only edits I intended to do was to remove some tags that were making some text too small to read. I think it may of been a problem with MediaWiki, it's been known to revert things accidentally sometimes. Norm 15:25, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Template:SimonEastPhoto
The "high resolution" bit is poorly phrased; I'd recomend changing "-for commercial use this may incur a small fee." to "-commercial use of the high resolution version (although not the version here) may incur a small fee.", or something of the like. Thanks, Luc "Somethingorother" French 08:47, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Panorama photos
Hi Simon, I noticed your panorama image of Canberra from Telstra Tower on that page. I noticed the darkness on the sky varies. What software do you use for stitching? I thought I'd suggest to you that you try restitching the image with AutoStitch as I have had much better success with that program than I have for any other. -- Chuq 07:06, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Meetup in March
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Panorama of Canberra again
Hi Simon, as did Chuq, I noticed that there were some stitching faults with the panorama. I was wondering if you would be prepared to send me the originals as I may be able to re-stitch with better blending. If so, please leave me a message on my talk page or send me an email (go to my talk page and click on 'email this user' in the toolbox on the left). Thanks in advance. Diliff  | (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Russell Evans
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Image copyright problem with Image:Brother Yun - The Heavenly Man.jpg
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CfD nomination of Category:Photos by SimonEast
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Proposed deletion of Software Requirements Specification


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 * Content already at Requirements_analysis + how-to write an SRS document. Should become a redirect.

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Nomination for deletion of Template:SimonEastPhoto
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Notification: changes to "Mark my edits as minor by default" preference
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July WMAU Melbourne Meetup
Hi, At last month's June meetup we discussed the idea of setting up a Training Course at a University of the Third Age (U3A) to be held in 2013 and named Becoming a Wikipedia editor. In order to get this course up and running we are calling for volunteers to help develop the idea, and either tutor part of the course, or provide one on one help to students in the class. All local Wikipedians are welcome to discuss this at our 11am meetup to be held this Sunday on 22 July. Please add your name to the attending list at Meetup/Melbourne 23. Food and beverages are provided. Cuddy Wifter (talk) 05:07, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Planetshakers 2005.jpg
Hello, SimonEast! Can you place this file to Commons? --Michael4Wiki (talk) 18:03, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Australia Act 1986
An edit for a caption to your "Photo of the Australia Act 1986 document, as located in en:Parliament House, Canberra" has been discussed at Talk:Australia Act 1986 and Talk:Monarchy of Australia. My question is: are you able to make any comment on whether it is, as a source states, what is technically an "Assent original"?. I see your .jpg caption does not say so, and the two other articles where it has been used display their captions without that: Law of Australia, Royal sign-manual. Could it have been explained to you at the time? Or perhaps you know of an authentic and indisputable source? Qexigator (talk) 22:42, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

File source problem with File:Planetshakers 2005.jpg
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Discussion at Wikipedia:Teahouse § Is "post-compromise security" notable?
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Nomination of Ken Duncan (photographer) for deletion
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 * I saw your comment at the AfD. I'm not in a position to assess this one, but I think you're not helping your cause much by just making a comment. May I make two suggestions?
 * you need to vote keep or your comment will not be counted
 * pick three articles that are not interviews or wholly based on press releases and list them bullet-point style with a statement about why they support WP:NARTIST (I think this is the right guideline)
 * Oblivy (talk) 02:11, 18 June 2024 (UTC)